When the Marine Corps needed a new capstone document to capture its emerging warfighting philosophy in the 1980s, the person chosen to draft it was not a general, but a junior officer, then-captain John Schmitt. He explains how he came to write one of the most widely read military documents in the world today on the latest episode of Pentagon Labyrinth.

Pentagon Labyrinth is hosted by Dan Grazier.

Music: "Without Limits" by Ross Bugden